A shutdown wouldn’t halt Trump’s trials, so Republicans seek to rein in his prosecutors
NBC News reports: Four criminal indictments of Donald Trump have ignited his followers and spurred his House Republican allies to try to use the upcoming government funding deadline of Sept. 30 as leverage to undermine the prosecutions. The bad news for them: A government shutdown wouldn’t halt the criminal proceedings against the former president. Trump’s indictments in New York and Georgia would not be affected, while his federal indictments — for allegedly mishandling classified documents and for his role in…